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Allah’s Apostle said to me, “O Abdullah! Do not be like so and so who used to pray at night and then stopped the night prayer.”

Lets examine ourselves and ask whether we have continued the ibadah we were so eagerly doing during Ramadan, or have we abandon them? This should act as excellent reminder to us all, beginning with myself. Since we only have less that 4 months to go till another Ramadan enters our lives, lets start making changes from now. The Sahaba’s use to prepare months before Ramadan, and look at us today…we rush 24hours before Ramadan starts.

May Allah help us continue whatever small deeds or ibadah we were doing during Ramadan throughout the whole year. Ameen.

Oh Allah, Verily, I ask you for the best affair, the best supplication, the best success, the best knowledge, the best deed, the best reward, the best life, and the best death. Keep me upright, make my scale heavy, confirm my faith, raise high my status, accept my prayer, and forgive my sins, I ask you for high position in Paradise. Ameen

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that the number of women would increase and the number of men would decrease so for every 50 women would be one man.” (Bukhari)

37. Sudden death

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that sudden death would occur frequently.” (Tabarani)

38. Hostility between people

The Prophet (PBUH) was asked about the Day of Judgement, the Prophet (PBUH) said “Only Allah knows, but I will tell you some of its signs, one of its signs is that there will be Fitnah and Haraj.” The sahabahs said “We know what Fitnah means (trials & tribulations), what does Haraj mean?” The Prophet (PBUH) said, “It means in the Abyssinian language, killing.” And then the Prophet (PBUH) said, “People will not know each other.” (Ahmad)

-“People will not know each other” = meaning that people will deal with each other with hostility.

39. The Arabian peninsula becomes gardens with flowing rivers again

Prophet (PBUH) said, “The Day of Judgement will not occur until the land of the Arabs becomes gardens and rivers.” (Muslim)

40. The sky rains but nothing grows

Prophet (PBUH) said, “The Day of Judgement will not occur until rain would fall over people but nothing would grow.” (Ahmad)

41. The Euphrates river will reveal a mountain of gold

Narrated Abu Hurayrah, the Prophet (PBUH) said, “A time will come when the Euphrates river will reveal a mountain of gold. If you are there do not take anything from it.” (Bukhari)

42. Animals and objects speaking

Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri said, “There was a shepherd with his sheep and a wolf attacked and grabbed one of the sheep and ran away with it, so the shepherd followed the wolf and grabbed the sheep away from the wolf. So the wolf sat on its back (its tail), and said, “fear Allah, you are taking away from me food that was sent to me by Allah.” The shepherd said, “this is amazing, a wolf sitting down on its tail speaking to me like a human being.” The wolf said, “I will tell you something more amazing, Muhammad (PBUH) is in Yathrib and is teaching the people about news of the nations before.” The shepherd took all of his sheep and went to Madinah and then he went to the Prophet (PBUH) and told him what happened. The Prophet (PBUH) gathered all of the sahabah in the masjid and told him to stand up and tell them what he heard. He told them. The Prophet (PBUH) said, “the Day of Judgement will not occur until beasts would speak to the human and the cane would speak to the man and the shoe laces would speak to you and your thigh would speak to you about what your family are doing.” (Ahmad)

43. The desire for dying

Narrated Abu Hurayrah, the Prophet (PBUH) said, “A time will come when a man will pass by a grave and would say, “I wish I was there instead of you.” (Bukhari)

44. The population of the Romans increases

The Prophet said, “The Day of Judgement will occur and the Romans are the largest nation.” (Muslim)

45. The battles with the Romans

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “…there will be a peace agreement between you and the Romans, and then they will break that peace agreement and a war would start, they would attack you under eighty banners and every army is twelve thousand.” (Bukhari)

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “You will have battles with the Arabian peninsula and you would win and then you would have battles with the Persians and you would win, Allah would give you victory and then you would fight with the Romans and Allah would give you victory and then you would fight the Dajjal and Allah would give you victory. Then Nafi’ bin Utbah said to Jabir, “Therefore ad-Dajjal would not come until our war with the Romans in over.” (Muslim)

How true is this statement, and isn’t it interesting how this wise man portrays the role a Muslim mother plays in the rearing of her children? May Allah guide Muslim parents to the right way and grant their children understanding of this Deen. Ameen.

“….Mothers play a great role in building a generation. The better a mother is at raising her children, the more successfully the Ummah is built and the more successful it is at producing heroes. You hardly ever see a great man except that a great woman is behind him who left some of her traits in his personality by way of the milk from which he was fed and the warm embrace in which he sought refuge.”

“A sign of goodness of the heart is when we share the pain of others and reach out to them without knowing them personally.”

Our new project for 2014 is to help those who are locked away, not knowing when they will be released or when they will see other human beings as for some stay in complete isolation for 23 hours of the their 24 hours.

The new project is called ‘Write to a Prisoner’

Please Google for their details, write to them and get family and friends and others involved. You can get involved by writing letters, postcards, getting children to do art pieces with messages and many more other ideas you can think of. Be creative!

Abu Hurayrah (RA) said, Prophet (PBUH) said, “There will be tricky years, wicked years where the liar would be believed and the truthful would not be believed and the untrustworthy would be trusted and the trustworthy would not be trusted and the Ruwaybidah would speak. The sahabah said, “Who is the Ruwaybidah?” The Prophet (PBUH) said, “The lowly, the insignificant would be talking in the affairs of the people.” (Ibn Majah)

The lowly, the insignificant = The low class in religion, those without morals and ethics.

27. Salam to the ones you know

Narrated Ibn Mas’ud that the Prophet (PBUH) said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that you only give salam to the one you know.” (Ahmad)

28. Women who are dressed but naked

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that there would be women who are dressed but naked, their heads are like the hump of a camel, they do not enter into Jannah and they do not even smell the scent of Jannah, and the smell of the scent of Jannah can be found from a very far distance.” (Muslim)

29. New form of transportation

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “In the future there will there will be men of my Ummah sitting over saddles on things that are similar to camels and they descend from these on the gates of the Masajid, but their wives are dressed but naked, curse them because they are cursed.” (Ahmed)

30. The true dreams of the believers

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “Towards the end of time the dream of the believer almost never lies, they happen just as you see it n the dream, and the dream of the believer is one out of forty-six parts of prophethood.” (Tirmidhi)

31. The spread of print

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “Approaching the Day of Judgment, the Pen will prevail.” (Ahmad)

Pen = Anything that is written in any form or documented or in print.

32. The expansion of the crescent

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that the crescent would be bloated.” (Tabarani)

33. Lies and fabrication in religion

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “Approaching the end of time there would be liars, imposters, they present you with talk that you did not hear and your forefathers never heard of before. Beware of them, don’t let them mislead you and misguide you.

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Abdullah Ibn Amr Ibn Al-‘Aas said that “there are some devils imprisoned in the oceans of Sulayman, a time would come when they would come out and they would recite unto people words that they would claim is revelation.” (Muslim)

35. False witness and concealing the true witness

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “Approaching the Day of Judgment will be false witness and concealing the true witness.” (Ahmad)